Year 4 · SPaG · Determiners, adverbs and prepositions
Year 4 prepositional phrases worksheet and PowerPoint
To use prepositional phrases to say where, when or why, and to find them in sentences.
Prepositions
A preposition shows how a noun or pronoun is related to another word. Prepositions of time (before, after, during, until), place (under, behind, beside, between) and cause (because of, due to). A preposition is followed by a noun or pronoun: behind the shed, during lunch.
| time | We played during lunch. Wait until Friday. |
|---|---|
| place | The cat hid under the bed. She sat beside me. |
| cause | We stayed in because of the rain. |
Examples
- The dog slept under the table.
- The match was cancelled due to the weather.
Key words
- preposition
- shows how a noun or pronoun is related to another word
- prepositional phrase
- a preposition and the noun that follows it
- time
- when
- place
- where
- cause
- why
What is on the worksheet
Every sheet for this lesson has a short teaching box and 12 questions that get gradually harder: 8 fluency questions, then 4 reasoning questions that ask pupils to explain or choose. A writing challenge follows. The questions use the same styles as the key stage 2 grammar and punctuation test (circle, underline, tick, fill the gap, add punctuation, rewrite, explain). They are written for this website, not copied from past papers.
All the answers are on the last page of the same editable Word file. New questions are made every time, so you can print a different sheet for every group or for homework. The same sheet code always gives the same sheet.
Writing challenge: Write eight sentences about a picture of a park. Each one must have a prepositional phrase, and underline it.
Pupil target: I can find and use prepositional phrases.
The PowerPoint
A 20-slide lesson deck for the same lesson: a starter that revisits earlier learning, key words, an I do and a You do question on each slide with a countdown timer, answers that appear one click at a time, and a challenge. Download the prepositional phrases PowerPoint.
Where this lesson fits
This is lesson 46 of 60 in the Year 4 SPaG scheme, in the block “Determiners, adverbs and prepositions”.
Other lessons in this block
- Using determiners
- A or an
- Expanding sentences with adverbs
- Choosing adverbs
- Expanding sentences with prepositions
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